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Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. All others are out of service or full.
Corcoroni's Sixth Law of Bus Transportation
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Buses
Transportation
The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.
boyl
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Boyle's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Deficiencies
The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
Anonymous
Problems
Falling behind
If money can fix it, it's not a problem.
Tom Magliozzi
(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”
Problems
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Allen's Law of Civilization
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Civilization
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president
Problems
Situations
(also Winston Churchill)
Rope
Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
Corollary: Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the boss is reading it.
First Law of Office Murphology
Communication
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Letters
There are no personal problems which cannot be solved through suitable application of high explosives.
Anonymous
Problems
Explosives
I led the league in “Go get ‘em next time.”
Bob Uecker
(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball
Failure
Sports
When my wife drives, there’s always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, “There’s water in the carburetor.” I asked her, “Where’s the car?” She said, “In a lake.”
Rodney Dangerfield
(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Autos
Problems
Things
Carburetor
When things are going well, something will go wrong.
Chisholm's Second Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
Stanisław Lec
(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist
Problems
Situations
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
Bob Monkhouse
(1928 – 2003) English entertainer
Mistakes
Things
Drawing board
Inventors
To err is human… and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer
Computers
Failure
Mistakes
Things
Blame
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore
(1882 – 1942) American actor
America
Places
Problems
A dropped object will fall with an acceleration of 32 feet per second per second, and if it is your wallet, it will make every effort to land in a public toilet.
Dave Barry
(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Gravity
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Chinese proverb
Problems
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
Willoughby's Law
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Machines
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Vile's Law of Communication
Mistakes
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Listening
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis
(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
Mistakes
Money
Ancestors
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.
Tim Allen
(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents
Autos
History
Time
Truth
Eyewitness Accounts
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